Last one I'm not sure about. The option says "Cathedral of Shadows" but the response is something like " can do [that] sooner or later"? I don't know if all her answers are as teasing/taunting as the one for "Exit," but almost want to render this as...

Also went over the previous thing. I think the second line is wrong in context. Judging from how "ga tame" is used in the latest bit, "Nanji no chikara ni naran ga tame" strikes me as "in order to become your strength," and "miru ga ii" appears to be idiomatic - like "yattemiru," "to try to [do something]".

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Charon: You cannot yet cross this river, mortal.For a light yet shines upon you as your protector.

That light has taken form upon this riverbank,seeking to become your strength.

Now, return from whence you came.Stand once more, and be reborn with the power of light...

I would Olde English it up a bit, but I'm not sure how far to go before it'd become silly. ("The light hath" would be a good place to start, but where would it stop? XD) Also, technically the other translation of the first and final lines are more accurate, but I think my versions sound a little more suitably dramatic? :3

EDIT: Never mind on that second part. Pretty sure I'm right about "to become your strength" but not so much about the rest. ^_^;

Last we spoke on the subject, she'd gotten a huge chunk of the menu redesigned completely to look more like the one in BoF2. (She even incorporated my vertical menu hack. :3)

She even one-upped d4s by getting a VWF in - it's sort of a cheat (the text is prerendered), but it looks damn good nonetheless.

To answer the TC's question, this is some very advanced hacking we're talking here. It's not something you can pick up overnight from a few documents. If you are an absolute rank beginner at any kind of hacking, I'll give you the same advice I'd give anyone else: start at the bottom and work your way up. Text hacks, graphics hacks, get to understand how games work under the hood, move up to simple ASM stuff, and then you can start dreaming of grandiose menu hacks. (Though there's a chance Myria and I might've already finished up BoF1 by then. It could happen! ^_^; )

Okay, so...how exactly have you been working on this hack "for a long time" if you only just recently learned how to use a hex editor?

More importantly, how are you "on the brink of finishing it" if you haven't actually done any of the work you need to do on the enemies and bosses?

As for deadlines...well. I'm rather amused at the thought of a romhacker with a deadline. I mean, unless there's a evil-faced moon (or similar catastrophe) about to crash down on your head, there's really no ironclad force that could impose a "deadline" on you, and if an evil-faced moon is about to crash down on your head, then trying to rope an experienced hacker into doing your entire project for you (and stretching the truth about your own hacking accomplishments) seems like a rather questionable use of your time, doesn't it?

I strongly recommend participating in a Ludum Dare or other game jam if you're not sure about your coding skills. Nothing gets the creative juices flowing like a hard time limit and a theme to follow. And once you're done, you'll have a tiny little indie game you can flesh out into a full-blown indie blockbuster. Just look at McPixel or Evoland.

Vanilla Coke is good, but it's not something I can really stomach as my "beverage of choice." Once in a blue moon is fine, though. Also, I absolutely loved Pepsi Blue back in the day. I never did get around to my experiment of combining Pepsi Blue with Dr. Pepper Red Fusion and tasting the resulting concoction, though. ^_^;

I'll admit I don't remember Crystal Pepsi at all. There's actually a gag in the dub of FLCL that references it (the Japanese version, or so I'm told, references a different discontinued soft drink). It's touches like that that make FLCL one of the greatest dubs of all time, IMHO. But I digress. :3

Fourth one, I'm just not sure if I'm reading it right. It's something like, "am I going nuts or does it sound like someone getting beaten up and thrown out into the cold?" The use of とか makes me think he's referring to two separate ideas of what he thinks is going on, i.e. either "brutally thrown out" and "baby abandoned in the cold"; I just wanted to be sure what I was reading was what was meant.

This...I can't really make any headway on it. I sort of get the gist but I'm not sure I'm reading it right. (For context, he's just realized that the "kitten crying" he's been following sounds more like a baby - or something else - and whatever it is, it's in serious trouble.)

Panel 1:ふ～っ アサマシイねえ浩次…お前は女に何か貰えるキャラか？"Pfff...that's low as balls, Kouji. Didn't peg you for the type who'd [do ???] to a girl."

女に何か貰える is the part I'm having trouble with. As far as I can tell, 貰う is "to receive," but the use of に is bizarre - like "receive something to a girl"? Is there some idiomatic use or alternate definition that I'm not getting here?

うるせーなー 意味ねぇ兄貴風吹かせてんじゃねーよ！！

This one loses me at 風吹かせて. I'm certain this sentence contains some idiom I'm not getting.

Panel 3:「落し物です」とか「送り違いです」とかみんなの前で言って回って バレンタインに知らねえ女のマヌケぶりを晒し者にするか？"Would you have just paraded it around saying 'oh look, someone dropped this' or 'oh look, someone gave this to me by mistake' like ???"

バレンタインに知らねえ女 is the part that I want to translate as "like some girl who doesn't know it's Valentine's Day," but the use of に again has me confused.

Can anyone give me some advice (and maybe have a quick look over my finished script) before I submit? I'm pretty sure I have quite a bit less than 24 hours to get this wrapped up and out the door...

It's one of those semi-Engrish things where the translators go for the literal meaning rather than what would make sense. 勇者 literally means "brave person," but I can think of few reasons not to translate it as "hero" given the contexts it appears in. Confusing the issue, of course, is the existence of the word 英雄, which much less ambiguously means "hero."

The bottom line here is, if the font's compressed, you'll need to use a debugging emulator (like Geiger's Snes9x Tracer) to hunt down the compression routine. It's actually a pretty straightforward process; the best part is, writing a decompressor is a simple matter of copying the routine the game uses verbatim. (Writing a recompressor is trickier, but doable.)